This is my hard time -Theodore Roethke The mornings I can cope with. Just. Not grabbing my phone before … More
Category: Theodore Roethke
The damage of haste
The book has been working at my desk, which means it looks as though I have been burgled. ‘I can’t … More
The poem is cross with me
The poem is not happy. It glares up at me, its eyes spitting fury. ‘How dare you take me in … More
No rights in this matter
I have been thinking a lot recently about final lines of poems. I’ve always been fond of Seamus Heaney’s comment about … More
This was just a crow
My Crow A crow flew into the tree outside my window. It was not Ted Hughes’s crow, or Galway’s crow. … More
Lifesaving Poems: Alden Nowlan’s ‘This is What I Wanted to Sign Off With’
This is What I Wanted to Sign Off With You know what I’m like when I`m sick: I’d sooner curse … More
Lifesaving Poems: Theodore Roethke’s ‘Elegy for Jane’
I came across ‘Elegy for Jane’ having found poems by Theodore Roethke in Ted Hughes’ classic anthology of poems and … More